Matthew Fox) - stared in Party of Five and LOST.

Matthew Fox (Jack) actually had these tattoos. The makers of the show planned to cover them up but decided rather to work them into his story. Their backstory is revealed in Season episode Stranger In A Strange Land.

Matthew Fox’s left-arm tattoos. For the longest time, I thought the large, red design was a rose. Fleeting glimpses make it hard to really see something. (I first noticed this when Jack was opening the Halliburton case in 1.16 “Outlaws”. But it was visible right from the start, in the Pilot, when Jack took off his shirt to see about the big wound he got on his back in the crash. Let’s face it. In that scene, the most interesting thing to look at was the wound, NOT his arm held over his…